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As we have seen, eyewitness testimony and individual experience have played a significant role in shaping the socio-political debates surrounding collective memory of the GDR and the processes of dealing with its legacy. This chapter seeks to give an overview of the approach to testimony, media and memory that will be taken in my analysis of a selection of these texts, exhibitions and films, as well as introduce two new theoretical terms that emerge from the study and which have wider relevance: mediated remembering communities and complementary authenticities.
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Jones, S. (2014). The Media of Testimony. In: The Media of Testimony. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137364043_2
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